{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn3.3/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn3.3","id":"suttacentral_sn3.3","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn3.3/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Seated to one side, King Pasenadi said to the Buddha, \u201cSir, for someone who has been reborn, is there any exemption from old age and death?\u201d \u201cGreat king, for someone who has been reborn, there\u2019s no exemption from old age and death. Even for well-to-do aristocrats, brahmins, or householders\u2014rich, affluent, and wealthy, with lots of gold and silver, lots of property and assets, and lots of money and grain\u2014when they\u2019re born, there\u2019s no exemption from old age and death. Even for mendicants who are perfected\u2014who have ended the defilements, completed the spiritual journey, done what had to be done, laid down the burden, achieved their heart\u2019s goal, utterly ended the fetter of continued existence, and are rightly freed through enlightenment\u2014their bodies are liable to break up and be laid to rest.\u201d That is what the Buddha said. \u2026 \u201cFancy chariots of kings wear out, and even this body gets old. But the truth of the good never gets old\u2014 so the good proclaim to the good.\u201d","title":"Old Age and Death","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":168}